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T1 Measuring the coefficient of restitution and more: a simple experiment to promote students’ critical thinking and autonomous work
A1 González Delgado, Manuel Ángel
A1 González Rebollo, Miguel Ángel
A1 Vegas Hernández, Jesús María
A1 Llamas Bello, César
K1 Física
K1 Enseñanza
K1 Physics
K1 Teaching
K1 Smartphones
K1 Experiments
K1 Autonomous work
AB AbstractA simple experiment on the determination of the coefficient of restitution ofdifferent materials is taken as the basis of an extendable work that can be doneby the students in an autonomous way. On the whole, the work described inthis paper would involve concepts of kinematics, materials science, air dragand buoyancy, and would help students to think of physics as a whole subjectinstead of a set of, more or less, isolated parts. The experiment can be doneeither in teaching laboratories or as an autonomous work by students at home.Students’ smartphones and cheap balls of different materials are the onlyexperimental materials required to do the experiment. The proposed workalso permits the students to analyse the limitations of a physical model usedin the experiment by analysing the approximations considered in it, and thenenhancing their critical thinking.
PB Institute of Physics
SN 0031-9120
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23980
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23980
LA eng
NO Physics Education 52 (2017)
NO Innovación Educativa
DS UVaDOC
RD 23-nov-2024